 Next question is from you gut to V cut. Can lack of scapular retraction prevent you from squatting deep? Oh, yeah, well, okay. So if you just gonna squat on your own without any weight, maybe not, but if you put a load on yourself, then yeah, you definitely need, scapular retraction is your ability to pull your shoulders back and hold them there. And so when you've got that scapular retraction going on and then you squat, oftentimes the upper back wants to compensate and kind of roll forward. By the way, when one part of the spine compensates, oftentimes you see it affect other parts of the spine. So I know I said definitely with load, maybe not so much with load, but even with out load, if parts of your back are starting to round, you'll start to see in the lower back as well. Having that neutral spine all the way up and all the way down really, well, if you're not addressing it, it's gonna turn into promoting it. And so that's something you gotta consider too. And it's very protective to have your shoulders retracted there, especially when you have load. So it has that muscle contraction there, protecting your spine down. And plus two, then you get that forward leaning effect too. If you're not addressing that as well, where your shoulders are already on their way forward, which then is promoting your body to go in that direction and something you're fighting to sit back on. This was actually a massive cue that made a huge difference in my squat technique. And I did not think it was gonna be that big of a difference. You're all focused on hips and ankle. Yeah, yeah, this actually helped me out a lot. And now looking at it and unpacking probably why, well, one, we all kind of have forward shoulder, but it does a couple other things really well too. So you guys have seen me do that little posture check where I have people stand and then your hands go up forward and you retract the shoulders, rotate, come down by your side. And then I used to tell clients like, okay, this is the anatomical position. This is ideally where you wanna be. And then I would go fill your stomach and what happens when you put yourself in the anatomical position, like the most ideal stacking all the joints, in order to hold the spine in that position, what happens? The core draws in. The core draws in and braces really well just to hold you in good posture. And so what I found was when I would get under the bar and I'd really wedge the bar down and focus on retracting and depression and locking in, it automatically drew my core in, elevated my chest up, which are important cues for a lot of people with coming out of the hole in a squat. You get down in a squat and at the very bottom, it's heavy and this is where the breakdown happens a lot of time. And if you already have excessive forward shoulders and your core is not tensed, first thing you'll see is someone to round and fall forward a little bit. We tend to forget that our whole body's connected, right? So we think one thing doesn't affect another thing. Here's a test you could do at home, right? Go try to open a really, really tight jar and notice how every muscle in your body tenses up. So you're trying to do it with your arms. You're not doing this with your wrist and fingers. Yeah, it's both arms. Even your jaw. Your face is tensing up, you're squeezing your legs and your glutes and your core because you're getting this kind of full body activation. By the way, that makes you stronger. You're not gonna be as strong. If I squeeze something as hard as I can, but with my whole body relaxed, I'm not gonna be as strong as when I tense everything up. And this is natural. This is a natural thing that happens. So when one thing is off, if you're not trying to pay attention on keeping everything else a certain way, it'll automatically cause other things to happen in the rest of your body. And by the way, when you go to fatigue or when you're training under heavy load, your body's gonna revert to what it does. And that is turn everything on, everything's connected, everything gets effective. I've been trying to think of an analogy for that for a while, but in terms of like, if you think of the squat rack and in terms of it being bolted down versus it being free standing and you're putting pressure on it, it's much stronger when it's anchored. And so to that whole effect of you tensing your whole body up, you're able to anchor yourself and ground yourself so you're, in a sense, a movable, which makes you stronger. Yeah, and remember your CNS, it fires signals in specific areas like to the bicep or to the shoulder, but it can't fire it as loudly as when it turns everything on. If it turns everything on, you get a louder signal in one area. That's why when you're trying to open the tight jar, everything tenses up, because your CNS is like reserves, we need strength, we need power. Well, and back to their specific question of like, can this affect me squatting deep? Like, what'll happen, you know, when you get into a really deep squat, it's pretty important, unless you're doing a very low, low bar squat for the chest to be upright for the bar path. Even with a low bar, you need to have a high chest. Right, right. So even, but it's a little, it's less than if you have a high bar, right? Because it's the bar path. If you are, if you're coming forward and you have a hard time retracting and depressing the shoulders and you're rolled forward and you get down in that squat, by the time you break 90 that bar path is starting to go over the knees. And then you're gonna feel the stress and the knees and it's gonna feel limiting, you won't be able to get ass to grass. So absolutely the ability to retract, to press the shoulders, keep the chest high, the core tight will make a big difference in your squat depth.